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September 2009 - Posts

Cybersecurity Today: The Wild, Wild West

If you purchased a brand new computer today with all the latest security software and plug it into the Internet, how long would it be before the first hacker probed it? Answer : About four hours... http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=12100CEDYE09 Read More...
Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 7:54 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Inside the Password-Stealing Business: The Who and How of Identity Theft

With shopping and banking transactions occurring primarily online today, password stealing has become a common cyber crime. Whatever the vector of attack, in many cases some sort of password-stealing malware makes its way onto victims’ computers. McAfee Read More...
Posted Monday, September 28, 2009 7:50 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Where in the World do Viruses come from?

The U.S. continues to dominate as the main source of the world's viruses, producing 15.9 percent of all viruses. It is followed closely by Brazil, which produces 14.5 percent (similar levels to last month's 14.1 percent). You can see more about virus Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009 8:19 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Hacking Your Life (oh oh...)

A Virginia woman discovered that her married boyfriend had other girlfriends, and she decided to seek revenge online. According to federal prosecutors, she hired computer hackers to help. Elaine Cioni paid hackers $100 [U.S] for the password to her boyfriend’s Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009 8:14 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Microsoft SDL team releases new security tools

The Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) team at Microsoft released two security testing tools. BinScope Binary Analyzer BinScope is a Microsoft verification tool that analyzes binaries on a project-wide level to ensure that they have been built in compliance Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009 8:08 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

SANS Outlines the Top Cyber Security Risks

SANS released the "Top Cyber Security Risks" report which covers March-August 2009. The report features attack data from TippingPoint intrusion prevention systems protecting 6,000 organizations, vulnerability data from 9,000,000 systems compiled by Qualys, Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009 8:06 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Top 100 Virus-Infected Web Sites Exposed

Simply visiting one of the "Top 100 Dirtiest" Web sites - without downloading or even clicking anything - could expose your computer to infection and put your personal information into the hands of criminals, anti-virus software company Norton Symantec Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:44 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute

Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. Last November, security researchers first showed how WPA could be broken, but the Japanese researchers have taken Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:35 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Windows Exploit Programming Primer

From SecurityTube: "We kick started the exploit code research series on SecurityTube by creating the assembly language primer (13 videos), buffer overflow basics (nine videos), and format string (in progress) exploitation videos. However, we concentrated Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:31 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Introduction to Malware Analysis — Free Webcast

From Lenny Zeltser: "My popular malware analysis course has helped IT administrators, security professionals, and malware specialists fight malicious code in their organizations. In this free webcast, I introduce the process of reverse-engineering malicious Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 5:29 PM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

The Phishing Guide: Understanding and Preventing Phishing Attacks

This paper [PDF] covers the technologies and security flaws phishers exploit to conduct their attacks, and provides detailed vendor-neutral advice on what organisations can do to prevent future attacks. Security professionals and customers can use this Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 9:00 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments

Security Risk as People Use Same Password on All Websites

The research reveals that nearly half (46 percent) of Britons use the same password to login to their banking, shopping and social networking sites with a further 54 percent confessing to using variations of the same password. And with the average person Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 8:52 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments
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Researchers Find a New Way to Attack the Cloud

Amazon and Microsoft have been pushing cloud-computing services as a low-cost way to outsource raw computing power, but the products may introduce new security problems that have yet to be fully explored, according to researchers at the University of Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 8:48 AM by chsecblo | 0 Comments
 
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